• Sl00k@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    The majority of traders on U.S. stock exchanges (95%+) are individual traders.

    Absolutely need a source for that one. Sounds wrong on both volume of $ and volume of trades.

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      2 days ago

      That’s because “[number of] traders” and “volume” are two different numbers. Volume wise it’s probably the opposite.

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        1 day ago

        Yes but using number of traders is useless to look at which is why I used total volume or amount of trades both of which sounds wrong from Ops claim.

        Number traders does sound accurate but it’s a worthless metric that doesn’t tell us anything because they aren’t the ones doing the trading.